I don’t know what a trained counsellor licensed by the Commonwealth would advise us if we dated but who knows she might make an exception.
She'd probably say you're too Christian for me, what the heck am I doing.
What my therapist recommends for me might not be what she would recommend for someone else. I can’t speak for her when it comes to your or anyone else’s situation.
True. I usually date people younger than me, after 30 years with a man 2 years my senior. I try to stay up to date, and most men in my age bracket seem old fashioned and boring me. I had made an exception for my last bf however (as I am open minded), and we did make it for 2 1/2 years.
Personally I’m very happy for you that you are living in a love relationship.
Thanks. I am really grateful for miss pixi.
This points out the danger of sharing our most intimate thoughts and feelings with strangers who have distinctly different experiences with a variety of triggers. I don’t know what comes to your mind when I mention the frog pond. My ex hated the place but my wife can’t get enough of it.
Not really a "danger," IMO, but a stimulating challenge and diversion. I'd never want to talk to only people who agree with me all down the line. Hmmm, I don't think that person exists anyway. But I don't waste my time talking to conservative right wingers much, that's for sure.
I can fully accept your rejection of Christ even if you think He’s a fantasy of my imagination.
Reject Christ? I don't reject him. I spend a lot of time reading about him and thinking about him and talking about him. I just don't think he is "God" or "God's only son," except as a common archetype of the dying and rising grain god such as Osiris, Tammuz, Mithras, Adonis, and John Barleycorn.
I sure don't think Jesus and his dad are up in heaven, like Santa Claus, seeing me when I am sleeping and awake, seeing if I am naughty or nice, and all that, and putting me on the naughty list or in some big book til I get to those pearly gates. LOL. Come on. That's so childish. No wonder when kids figure out there's no Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, they ask, "Does this mean Jesus isn't real either, Mommy?" Mom looks horrified. "No dear, that magical person really does exist!"
It doesn’t change my opinion of you. I am sapiosexual like so many Bostonians who have been surrounded by and immersed in a sea of intellectual growth and development.
Hm.
However, if you’re a Yankees fan, we do have a problem that even Big Poppy can’t remedy.
At last something we can agree on. I was raised in NY and even then, my family were Mets fans and Yankee haters. Now, 40 years in Massachusetts has made me something of a Sox fan.
Although I must admit that it might have been one too many acid trips that knocked me off center...
But your faith healed you from the drugs and their effects? My drug addict daughter (who is mentally ill) has found Jesus this year and has been clean and sober since April. She is a newly born fundie and hooboy, it's like a new addiction. But as her dad and I say, "Jesus. He's better than crack."
...and isolation does make me crazy.
How does this fit in with the bad acid trips knocking you off center?
John on the other hand claims to have had a personal relationship with Jesus. John is an eye witness, or so the story goes.
It's a story. John was written much too late to have been the memories of an eye witness. And his story goes way off. The more complex a story, the less likely it is to be true. Everyone embellishes a story on the retelling. No one simplifies it. The simpler story (Paul's and Mark's) are much more likely to have more truthiness in them.
Who unlike Paul’s wife is encouraged to speak her mind wherever and whenever she chooses so long as she’s loving and considerate...
Did Paul have a wife? I think some early Christian proselytizers had women they traveled with whom they called sister wives. But they were all celibate or chaste.
I do appreciate you telling me what “bugs” you about me and why. I have a lot to learn.
Well, it's nice that age 66 you're still open to learning. However, if you don't step out of your comfort zone much you won't be learning much... Unless Jesus is telling you very interesting things. Far be it from me to wrest you of your comfort in the bosom of Jesus. I just don't think we could ever be a couple!
